Columbus in the Americas
A stirring tale of adventure and tragedyThey brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and labored to find out if there was any gold.With these portentous words, Christopher Columbus described one of his first encounters with Native Americans on the island of Guanahani, which he had named San Salvador and claimed for Spain the day before. In Columbus in the Americas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reveals that Columbuss subsequent dealings with the cultures he encountered not…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-118-03966-3
- EAN: 9781118039663
- Produktnummer: 13877268
- Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 596 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 4
Über den Autor
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON is the New York Times bestselling author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth, and River-Horse. Born of English-Irish-Osage ancestry, he holds a doctorate in English and a bachelor's degree in photojournalism. Heat-Moon lives in Columbia, Missouri.
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